Job Description: Security Operations Engineer

Company Overview

Cribl does things differently. We are a serious company that doesn’t take itself too seriously, and we’re looking for people who love to get stuff done, and laugh a bit along the way. We’re growing rapidly, looking for collaborative, curious, and motivated team members who are passionate about putting customers first. As a remote-first company, we believe in empowering our employees to do their best work, wherever they are.

As the data engine for IT and Security, many of the biggest names in the most demanding industries trust Cribl to solve their most pressing data needs. Ready to do the best work of your career? Join the herd and unlock your opportunity.

Why You’ll Love This Role

The Security Operations Engineer will be a pivotal member of Cribl’s Information Security team, primarily responsible for strengthening our security posture through robust security operations and advanced threat detection. You will lead security incident management, triage, and investigations, and be instrumental in developing innovative solutions to remediate current threats and proactively prevent future attacks. A key aspect of this role will be designing, implementing, and optimizing detection logic to identify sophisticated threats across our environment. You will partner closely with Product Security, IT, and Legal teams, and report to the Chief Information Security Officer.

Responsibilities

As an active member of our team, you will:

• Monitor security events and alerting via our security tooling, including MSSP, SIEM, AI, and CSPM tooling, to identify and triage potential threats.
• Develop, implement, and maintain high-fidelity detection rules and alerts within SIEM and other security platforms (e.g., EDR, Cloud Security tools) based on threat intelligence, MITRE ATT&CK framework, and identified risks.
• Conduct continuous tuning and optimization of existing detection logic to reduce false positives and improve detection efficacy.
• Respond to issues identified by our Cribl employees.
• Act as a security incident response lead, including leveraging and improving detection capabilities during investigations.
• Build, enhance, and manage security playbooks, incorporating detection engineering best practices.
• Conduct security assessments of corporate assets through vulnerability testing, threat hunts, and purple team activities, with a focus on identifying detection gaps and opportunities.
• Perform both internal and external security reviews of corporate properties (e.g., the corporate website and enterprise applications).
• Lead security incident response tabletop exercises.
• Continue to evolve and champion the use of Cribl products in our security tech stack to enhance detection, analysis, and response capabilities.
• Collaborate with threat intelligence teams to integrate new indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) into detection strategies.

Requirements

If you’ve got it - we want it:

• Knowledge of, and experience in, working with modern security principles (e.g., security data lakes, detections as code, EDR, zero trust networking, and other security tooling), as well as demonstrated experience with incident response and management.
• Proven experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining detection rules (e.g., Sigma, YARA, Splunk SPL, KQL) across various security platforms.
• Strong understanding of common attack frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK) and how to map detections to TTPs.
• Understanding of authentication and authorization schemes such as SAML, OpenID, OAuth2, and SCIM.
• Experience scripting/coding in at least one of the following languages: Python, NodeJS, Ruby, Bash.
• Be the go-to technical subject matter expert on security, compliance, and assurance topics.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, have a strong analytical acumen, self-motivated, able to work cross-functionally.